Effective PyCharm 2025 Transcripts
Chapter: Testing
Lecture: Quotes About Software Quality
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Now, as we get started here, I do want to give you two quotes.
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One from a famous person who writes a lot about software quality and has done a ton of studying of it. And another, anonymous.
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So I don't know their credentials, but their quote is pretty cool. So initially, the first quote I want to talk about is from Stephen McConnell.
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He's written Code Complete, I believe was the name of his book. Some really great books around software quality with hard data to back it up.
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And his quote was, the problem with quick and dirty, as opposed to using testing,
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the problem with quick and dirty is that the dirty remains long after the quick has been forgotten. I know that's for true.
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That is certainly true for software, regardless of whether this applies to testing
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or just taking your time to build it right, refactor the code to be really nice instead of just getting it to work and calling it done.
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So, yeah, don't let the dirty remain. Take the time to write well-crafted software. Testing can be an important part of that.
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And the bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten. Anonymous.
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So keep these in mind as you're building software and think about how testing might play a role in preventing or alleviating these issues.